Mose Khoneli: 'Amiran-Darejaniani'

Amiran-Darejaniani (also known in English as "The story of Amiran, son of Darejan") is a cycle of Georgian tales adaptation possibly from Arabic (c. 1050 or 1125) traditionally attributed to Mose Khoneli (Moses of Khoni) dating of the 12th century. It is a prose tale of battling knights in twelve episodes. A tradition holds it that Moses came from the town of Khoni in western Georgia, and, like Rustaveli, served at the court of Queen Tamar (r. 1184-1213).Amiran-Darejaniani was first published by the self-educated Georgian literary critic and bibliophile Zakaria Chichinadze in 1896 and first introduced to the English-speaking world through the translation by Robert Horne Stevenson in 1958.